[Cabbage42II]

My father just ordered a new Dell PC that is coming with Vista Home Premium installed on it and I'm looking for some sort of guide on how to secure it. For Windows XP I'd be all ready with a standard procedure (install firewall, antivirus, antispyware, set up automatic updates, etc. etc.), but I really don't know what to tell him for Vista and I've been unable to find a guide online either. Is it this case that Vista's built in security features are enough? I have not gotten a chance to use Vista, so I truely do not know myself. If anybody has any suggestions or knows of a guide that they can point me to, that would be truely appreciated.

[mrss]

I'd go thru your standard procedure - assuming your preferred software is Vista compatible.

No Vista AV. The Vista firewall is shipped in default mode with very little outbound protection. The protection you get is from other Vista security features, mainly the UAC process, where the user is asked "do you really want to do this" to execute a program.

My Vista laptop came with a 90 day Norton Trial. When that expired, I tried Comodo, but didn't like it. Installed Mcafee 2008 this week. Had used it before on an XP PC.